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The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity : England, 1550-1850 /

In 1666 King Charles II introduced a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. This text examines the inspiration behind this royal revolution in masculine attire.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kuchta, David, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Conspicuous constructions
  • The old sartorial regime, 1550-1688
  • "Apparel oft proclaims the man"
  • The crown proclaims the apparel
  • Court capitalism
  • Religious conformity to fashion
  • The seventeenth-century fashion crisis
  • "The mode is a tyrant"
  • "A tailor made thee"
  • "Popery and foppery"
  • The moral economy of mercantilism
  • The three-piece suit
  • Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832
  • "the manners of a republic"
  • Gentlemanly capitalism
  • Sublime masculinity
  • The feminization of fashion
  • The making of the self-made man, 1750-1850
  • "Character is power"
  • The language of capital
  • "The great masculine renunciation."